عنوان

Playing with Dynamite: U.S. Foreign Policy Toward Palestine, 1945-1948

Number

TL49438

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انگلیسی

Title Proper

Playing with Dynamite: U.S. Foreign Policy Toward Palestine, 1945-1948

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Jared Rivard

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Dorsey, Kurk

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of New Hampshire

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2017

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

131

Text of Note

Committee members: Harris, J. W.; Sokol, Jason

Text of Note

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-0-355-04066-1

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

M.A.

Discipline of degree

History

Body granting the degree

University of New Hampshire

Text preceding or following the note

2017

Text of Note

This thesis seeks to explain the motivations for United States Government actions regarding Palestine from 1945 to 1948. The conclusion, based upon accumulated primary research and secondary sources, is that the United States government involved itself Palestinian conflict for humanitarian reasons and was then unable to extract itself from the conflict due to Cold War considerations. The United States did not seek a solution to the Arab-Zionist quandary itself, which would have involved directly confronting the competing nationalist goals of the two groups. Instead, Washington's earliest actions focused on relocating Jewish victims of the Holocaust to Palestine, and formed its later policies around Cold War concerns. Research for this thesis was drawn primarily from documents found in volumes of the Foreign Relations of the United States. Other primary sources include the NSA archives, the London Times, and documents in The Israel-Arab Reader, edited by Walter Laqueur and Barry Rubin. Secondary books and articles are also employed to strengthen arguments, add perspective, and provide necessary information.

Middle Eastern history; American history; International Relations

Subject Term

Social sciences;Cold War;Mandate;Palestine;Truman, Harry;United Nations;Zionism

Nigro, Justin M.

Dorsey, Kurk

Subdivision

History

University of New Hampshire

Call Number

1925043277; 10280604

Electronic name

p

[Thesis]

276903

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